If you want your grave to literally be your final resting place, we might not recommend getting buried in the Netherlands.
"[G]raves in the Netherlands are typically rented for 10 or 20 years, with remains being cleared out once the lease expires," as RBC Capital analysts recently noted in a report.
Interestingly, this has nothing to do with burial rituals. Rather, it's because there isn't enough cemetery space in the country.
Poor soil conditions and high ground water tables that slow down the "skeletonisation process" of the bodies preclude the Dutch from building up enough cemeteries, Paul J. M. Van Steen and Piet H. Pellenbarg of the University of Groningen noted in a 2004 research report on burials in the Netherlands.
And while it's possible to fix (or at least mitigate) these two geographic issues by artificial means, the authors note that it's expensive for cemeteries to do so.
Read more: Graves in the Netherlands are rented - Business Insider
"[G]raves in the Netherlands are typically rented for 10 or 20 years, with remains being cleared out once the lease expires," as RBC Capital analysts recently noted in a report.
Interestingly, this has nothing to do with burial rituals. Rather, it's because there isn't enough cemetery space in the country.
Poor soil conditions and high ground water tables that slow down the "skeletonisation process" of the bodies preclude the Dutch from building up enough cemeteries, Paul J. M. Van Steen and Piet H. Pellenbarg of the University of Groningen noted in a 2004 research report on burials in the Netherlands.
And while it's possible to fix (or at least mitigate) these two geographic issues by artificial means, the authors note that it's expensive for cemeteries to do so.
Read more: Graves in the Netherlands are rented - Business Insider
